News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

An extract from a communication from Sir James Bevan, the Environment Agency Chief Executive, was published in the latest Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) Newsletter: "We support the withdrawal of the T8 exemption and as reasonably early as possible. We are presently working towards this end with Defra with legislation on the statute book for England and Wales likely from Spring 2022. Now and leading up to the proposed withdrawal of the T8, we are targeting T8 registered sites to ensure compliance with the limits and conditions of that exemption. The outcome of these and other checks feed back into our compliance and enforcement priorities, and we share our intelligence with our law enforcement agency partners. Tyres have been prioritised as a waste stream of concern and we are managing our resources accordingly.”

Despite its opposition to Extended Producer Responsibility in the UK, the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) welcomed the Indian government's initiative of an action plan to manage the country's growing waste volumes.

Since 1996, Nova Scotia’s tires have been processed and recycled by Divert Nova Scotia (Divert NS). According to the organization, more than one million used tires are diverted from the province’s landfills every year and 70 percent of those go to Halifax C&D Recycling to be recycled into a tire-derived aggregate (TDA) for construction of engineering applications.

Liberty Tire Recycling – the premier North American provider of tire recycling services – will open a new manufacturing facility in Sanford in February 2022, creating 30 new jobs in the area. The new facility will produce rubberized mulch, a resilient and sustainable alternative to traditional mulch, made from recycled end-of-life tires.

The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) is hosting the three day event that will take place from Wednesday through to Friday 23 - 25 March 2022 at the NH Collection Hotel, Grand Sablon, Brussels. The Conference is the culmination of a year-long series of ETRA-led and supported activities and events that focused on market development and expansion for a broad array of recycled tyre materials, products and applications.

According to the Pakistan Observer, Despite the ‘warnings and mild actions’ of the authorities concerned, the pyrolysis plants (tyre recycling units) mafia is running its business in the city to pollute the environment. The functioning of such plants not only rejects the claims of Commissioner Lahore Capt (retd) Muhammad Usman Younas for demolishing such plants but also the Prime Minister, who has a deep concern to keep the environment clean.

The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) is hosting the three day event that will take place from Wednesday through to Friday 23 - 25 March 2022 at the NH Collection Hotel, Grand Sablon, Brussels. The Conference is the culmination of a year-long series of ETRA-led and supported activities and events that focused on market development and expansion for a broad array of recycled tyre materials, products and applications.

Recently published by Spain's Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge Order1522/2021 defines end-of-waste criteria for recycled rubber from end-of-life tires, opening up new market options for these materials.

Bolder Industries, Inc., the pioneer of advanced sustainable chemical manufacturing sourced from end-of-life tires, announced today a landmark 20-year strategic marketing agreement with Tauber Oil Company, an independent wholesale marketer of petroleum and petrochemical product, for exclusive offtake of BolderOilTM — tire pyrolysis oil. United in both companies' ongoing desire to build relationships that accelerate the growth of sustainable materials, this partnership provides Tauber Oil with the largest allocation and supply of tire-derived, sustainable oil known in the industry by way of a proven industry pioneer.